Ive recently started messing around with some backing tracks for my students so they can practice their soloing, phrasing etc..  They are available at http://bmcguitar.com.au/guitar-backing-tracks You can also see them on my person YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrs2BDCTCLoDeQIk8ElJShg Jam tracks are great for simple practice and there is plethora of tracks on YouTube already but I thought I may as well add mine into the mix as well ..read more

Time for this weeks video! The BEST guitar riffs of 1985 This video was played by YouTuber guitarist, Ben Eller and you will love it. Check out some of these guitar riffs ..read more

These lads are a band that my band, The Cilikis, once or twice shared the stage with.  They are the reincarnation of an old Brisbane metal band called Minus Life who split for some reason and re-incarnated as Silver Ocean Storm with an absolutely outstanding vocalist, Toby Skeates.  This man sounds like Mike Patton from Faith No More, no word of a lie! Tonight I have had some time off work so Ive been listening to their album, Architect Of A Dying Sun.  Now I've heard this album a while ago in the late MySpace days and was impressed then, but listening again tonight has reaffirm ..read more

After three years or so, I have my #fender #bulletstrat back from a student who was using to learn on. Now for a clean, new strings, new #guitar #pickups and a different scratch plate maybe too. But first she needs a good clean for sure. This will be a project of mine that Ive been wanting to do for a while now but I think for now just some new strings and clean will do nicely and in the meantime, hunt for some decent pickups.  These aren't to bad but the top end is way to crispy, particularly when the strings develop that coating of oxidation, the string talk noise is blech ..read more

Today in the music listening room! Mundus Intellectualis by Scatterbrain ..read more

Anyone who knows me knows that I am quite picky when it comes to musicians; especially vocalists and drummers.  It takes a lot to impress me and NO, I'm not being some kind of a "muso snob" about it either! ...but.... when someone does comes along, there is something about what they do that grabs my attention.  Their technique, their attention to detail, the mojo, something jumps out at me. Some of those musicians are drummers like Marco Minneman (Paul Gilbert, Necrophagist, The Aristocrats, Steven Wilson), Bobby Jarzombek (Riot, Fates Warning), Mike Mangini (Dream Theater, Annihilat ..read more

Friday afternoon noodles before work on the guitar! Playing around with my new practice / jamming / song writing amplifier.  A Fender Frontman 65R solid state amplifier.  This is the effects chain. Ibanez -> Boss BD2 -> Mooer Reecho -> Hotone Verb -> Rowin Looper -> Fender (Clean channel, T=3, B=5) Your browser does not support the video tag ..read more

You can now connect to online guitar lessons via Microsoft Teams, Zoom or SKYPE.  Other options are in the works such as Discord and Google Hangouts.  More on that later ..read more

My guitar lesson availability calendar has been updated.  Late night Monday and Wednesday evening spots are open.  Mondays are extremely popular so this time will disappear fast ..read more

Here is a loop of Gm7 to C7 of the first part of the song, Honeysuckle Rose. Some suggested scales and arpeggio's to try would be Gm Pentatonic G Dorian C Mixolydian Em Blues Pentatonic with no 5th (E G A Bb D) The petantonic scale played like this, gives it an E Locrian Mode vibe) F Major / D Minor Petantonic Using some outside notes too like Eb work nicely but avoid F#. Your browser does not support the audio element. Also try playing modal licks using a mode scale structure and try playing it as if you were playing a two note per string pentatonic scale for some interesting melodic lin ..read more